12/19/2018 0 Comments Ebook To Kindle For MacCan you read your home-brewed mobi files on Kindle Reader for Mac? And how does the Mac experience compare with the Kindle for iPad experience? Some background: I'm someone tasked with converting books to ePub and Kindle for a small press. So I'm familiar with almost everything involved, including Calibre (though 'familiar with' does not necessarily mean 'proficient at'). I'm doing some conversion work freelance now, and I'm up against a problem. My client will likely view their eBook using Kindle Reader on an iPad, and I don't have one. I figured that reading the Mobi version on Kindle for Mac would give me a similar experience, and I hoped that the ePub to Calibre to Kindle Reader for Mac conversion route would be as straightforward as ePub to Calibre to Kindle. But I don't see any obvious way of making it happen, and quick Google searches haven't yielded any help. (Setting it up for them to preview before we go live on the Kindle store is going to be another headache, and any suggestions there will be appreciated!) Thanks for your time - I've been lurking here for a while, and it's helped a lot with my conversion duties. Yes, just add a copy of your Mobi file to the ~/Documents/My Kindle Content folder or wherever your version of K4Mac stores its files, or drag and drop it to either the open app window or its Dock icon (I forget which, exactly). Incidentally, there have been reports in the Sigil and Calibre forums that Calibre mobi conversions don't create enough space in a certain portion of the metadata to allow for the extra layer of DRM that the Kindle for Apps use, so it can't be used to convert a commercially-submittable Mobi file. Though this point may be moot if your client is willing to go DRM-free. Anyway, the app will allow them to see how it will actually look on several devices. EPUB Format EPUB is a common ebook format around the Web, but the Kindle can't read it natively. That's OK; you can convert.epub files to Mobi files for the Kindle to read. Run-time components of the library: C Runtime (CRT), Standard C ++, MFC, C ++ AMP, and OpenMP. • Processor 1.6 GHz or higher. • RAM of at least 1GB or 1.5GB if running on a virtual machine. The Visual C ++ Redistributable Package is used to run programs on your computer even if they have not already installed Visual Studio 2015. Visual C ++ Redistributable Packages installs the run-time components needed to run C ++ applications System Requirements: • Supported operating systems: Windows 10, Windows 7 Service Pack 1, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2, Windows Server 2012 Service Pack 2, Windows XP Service Pack 3. Visual c++ 2015 redistributable for mac. Hope this helps, and welcome to MobileRead! Quote: Incidentally, there have been reports in the Sigil and Calibre forums that Calibre mobi conversions don't create enough space in a certain portion of the metadata to allow for the extra layer of DRM that the Kindle for Apps use, so it can't be used to convert a commercially-submittable Mobi file. That would be a big problem if true, since as far as I know Adobe is still recommending Calibre for the last stage of converting an InDesign book to Kindle. Though I converted a book for work as recently as last week and it seems to have done fine. Thanks for the tip about the previewer. My work machine runs 10.4, so I have had to forego a lot of Kindle's Mac utilities.
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